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This one was tricky to grade. A commercial featuring a lot of visual effects is always a new experiment in terms of post production workflow. The entire post was done here @ SHED. There was a lot of work to do and everything had to be done simultaneously in order to meet the deadline. This meant that I had to grade the original footage and plates out of context (without having the shots composited together). Good com

It’s Friday and it’s time for a fresh new Colo Grading Breakdown! Check out these 2 mean cops : Color Grading Breakdown Sometimes a simple two shot might seem simple to grade, but when you add up all the small details it can get quite elaborate. Grading done in Autodesk Lustre @ SHED Montreal. Step 01 A simple S Curve to boost the contrast and a Saturation Curve to bring back some colors. Step 02 Primary

I graded a spot a few weeks ago for FQDI, a foundation that collects funds to support organizations that work to integrate and improve the quality of life for people with an intellectual disability. Directed by Jodeb, a rising star among music video director. Check out his work, it’s definitely unique and mind blowing! The low contrast look worked out pretty well in my opinion for this commercial. Here’s

Here’s this week fresh out of the water Color Grading Breakdown Series shot : Color Grading Breakdown It was the first time I had to grade an underwater shot. The highlights react a bit differently due to the water, so you have to be extra careful when adjusting them. It does create nice textures that you can’t get outside of the water though! This shot was filmed inside a pool, but the directors didnR

If you often shoot at night using only available light, you must have noticed that most of your light sources are always blown out and/or a bright white. To be honest, I don’t care that much about highlight details and I love the high contrast look. I believe that if something is bright in reality, why always try to bring it down in post? With the new raw cameras, it seems like there is a tendency to compress t

I had the pleasure to work with the talented Julien Vallée & Eve Duhamel for the color grading of the promo video for their new studio launch. Vallée Duhamel is a design and direction studio that creates high class lo-fi, often handmade, images and videos. If you haven’t seen Julien Vallée’s unique work, be sure to check it out! He has worked for clients like Coca Cola, MTV, Google and The New York Ti

Welcome to the very first Color Grading Breakdown Series post! The Color Grading Breakdown Series will consist of recurring posts featuring a short breakdown video of a single specific shot. A very brief text will accompany the breakdown video, but the idea here is not to elaborate too much or to dive too deep in color grading analysis. It is rather to inspire other colorists by showing the different layers of a grad

I’m starting a new photography book project tentatively named Now It’s Dark. The book will feature pictures taken only at night and will be divided into different categories like long exposures, urban & rural landscape, portraits, textures, etc. It’s a long term project that I’m aiming to release a year from now, but I’ll try to post a few pictures now and then along the way. Here